Sentences with phrase «ice moves toward»

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperature [53].

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperature [53].

Not exact matches

Molino was seen on the Loons» bench with a bag of ice over his left knee, and moving around on crutches toward the end of the game.

Such brine would freeze as it moved toward lower temperatures at the edge of the ice cap, forming a ring of concentrated salt.

These ice sheets move very slowly from the interior of the continent out toward the shoreline.

The melting and retreating of Arctic sea ice in the summer months also has allowed PWW to move further north than in the past when currents pushed it westward toward the Canadian archipelago.

The shelf was plugging the channel, but once it is gone, the glacier moves more rapidly toward the sea, forming more ice shelf, but removing large amounts of ice from the glacier.

«You've got all this warm water moving up,» she says, «but at the same time all the heavy, cold ice stocked with chemicals is getting pushed down toward the ocean.»

«Within a few months» of a breakup, explains glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqIce Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the glacier «accelerates significantly, and within a year or two, it can be moving [toward the ocean] up to four times as fast as it moved when the ice shelf was intact.&raqice shelf was intact.»

On the Torne River, there was a corresponding trend for earlier ice break - up in the spring, as the rate with which the river moved toward earlier thaw dates doubled.

Migration This seabird is not recognized as the migratory bird, however the northern birds may move southward during the winter season toward ice - free areas.

For weather predictions, accuracy disappears within a few weeks — but for ocean forecasts, accuracy seems to have decadal scale accuracy — and when you go to climate forcing effects, the timescale moves toward centuries, with the big uncertainties being ice sheet dynamics, changes in ocean circulation and the biosphere response.

The buttresses of ice frozen around Antarctica's edges, hundreds of meters thick in many cases, are also in the sea, but they can act like doorstops and — once moved out of the way — can allow huge volumes of ice on the continent (in theory) to move toward the sea more easily.

This supported orbital forcing of the ice ages and led to speculation that another ice age was inevitable as the planet moved toward the corresponding configuration.

In each case, the removal of ice around the periphery seems to allow inland ice to move more readily toward the sea.

The shelf was plugging the channel, but once it is gone, the glacier moves more rapidly toward the sea, forming more ice shelf, but removing large amounts of ice from the glacier.

From what scientists have learned, this ice sheet is far from static: It has «streams» of fast - moving ice running toward the sea at a rate of several kilometers a year.

(Large section of Larsen C is moving far faster than the rest of the ice shelf toward the Southern Ocean.

The freeze date for lakes and rivers in the Northern Hemisphere has moved later in the year, at an average rate of six days per 100 years, while the ice break - up date has moved up earlier in the year, at an average rate of a little more than six days over the last 100 years.6 Smaller lakes in North American show a uniform trend toward earlier ice break - up, up to 13 days early.7

In a new study, researchers have observed an expansion of the crevasse fields in one portion of the Greenland ice sheet, a change that they suggest may influence how the ice sheets move toward the ocean and raise sea levels.

If the polar ice caps were actually melting, we would see an increase in the length of the day as the polar mass moved toward the oceans and lower latitudes.